Approximately 300 volunteers — including students, parents, teachers and staff in the Derry Twp. School District — gathered in the Hershey High School cafeteria on Thursday to fill bags with rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, vitamins and nutrients for malnourished children in poverty-stricken areas throughout the world.

Volunteers packed the items into boxes that will be sent out by workers with Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger-relief agency based in Raleigh, N.C.

Volunteers packed 10,000 meals for the agency.

View full sizeSecond-grade teachers counterclockwise from left Amy Kensinger, Nicole Ehrhorn, Andrea Morrison and Amy Brant and math remediator Wendy Piper help to pack food for impoverished children throughout the world as part of in-service day at Derry Township School District on Thursday.

It was the first teacher in-service day this school year, and a number of teachers willingly gave up their morning breaks to help with the worthy cause.

Many teachers proudly wore brown “Got Cocoa?” T-shirts, which on the back gave an acronym for COCOA, listing the principals for the school environment: Community, Opportunity, Citizenship, Ownership and Academics.

The staff and student council raised $2,500 for the cause, which was brought to the district’s attention by fifth-grade teacher Alex Jones, who volunteered with Stop Hunger Now.

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